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the Geological Society meeting, in Science, vol. ii, pp. 277- 
283, Sept. 6th), and to numerous authors who have kindly 
supplied abstracts of their papers. 
Nineteen papers were presented before the Geological Soci- 
et}^ but in several instances the authors were absent and their 
papers wei*e therefore read only by title, for securing an early 
adjournment Wednesday noon. The following afternoon was 
spent in an excursion by thirty- seven fellows and their friends, 
with Prof. P^merson as guide, to Mt. Holyoke, to see contacts 
of the trap and sandstone and other features of the Triassic 
series. These papers in their order on the program, were as 
follows : 
On the Glacial DejKisits of southicestern Alberta, in the vicinity of 
the Rocky mountains. George M. Dawson and R. G. McConnell, 
Ottawa, Canada. (Read by title.) This paper presents the facts ob- 
tained during a recent examination of the glacial deposits of a portion 
of the southwestern part of the Canadian Great Plains, in the foot-hiUs 
and along the base of the Rocky mountains, where phenomena of par- 
ticular interest are displayed in connection with the relations of the 
western and eastern drift (CordilleraD and Laurentide). A brief sum- 
mary of previous observations is followed by a description of sections 
along two main lines of approach to the mountaias at relatively low 
levels and by an examination of the conditions surrounding the glacial 
deposits at the highest levels, found in the form of terraces with rolled 
shingle at 5,300 feet on the Porcupine hills. In conclusion, the observed 
facts are briefly discussed, attention being practically confined to this 
particular region. [An article on the glacial drift of the same district 
by the same authors api)ear8 in the last number of the Journal of Geol- 
ogy (vol. Ill, pp. 507-511, July-Aug., 1895), in which the Kansan, lowan 
and Wisconsin glacial formations are recognized in All)erta and Assini- 
boia, while for a still earlier till of western or Cordilleran derivation, 
with the associated Saskatchewan gravels, the name Albertan forma- 
tion is proposed. The Kansan and lowan till deposits of this region 
bear testimony, by the interblcnding of western and eastern drift, that 
the Cordilleran and Laurentide ice-sheets then became confluent along 
the east side of the Rocky mountains.] 
The Champlain Glacial Epoch. C. H. HrrcHcocK, Hanover, N. H. 
The term Champlain was first applied by the author in 1861 to the ma- 
rine deposits and associated fluviatile sands resting upon the glacial 
drift in the Champlain and St. Lawrence basins. Fifteen years earlier 
C. B. Adams jjointed out the distinction which has V)ecome embodied 
in the terms Leda clay and Saxicava aand. These deposits contain 240 
species of fossils in the St. Lawrence valley, nearly all of which are iden- 
tical with forms now living off the Labrador coast. The same is true 
likewise of the 121 species catalogued from the corresponding deposits 
